The Wild Reed

Thoughts & interests of a queer seeker of the Divine Presence;
of a “soul dancer,” seeking to embody with grace and verve
the mystico-prophetic spiritual tradition

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

MPR’s Major (But Unsurprising) Failure

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Following Tuesday’s primary election results in the North Star State, Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) News declared that: Minnesota made hi...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Kadeem En Pointe: Finding Freedom in Dance

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I’m looking forward to this Friday and All the World’s a Stage , a performance by dancer Kadeem Hosein (known as Kadeem En Pointe ) that’s ...
Monday, August 10, 2026

Quote of the Day

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T he genocide in Gaza is the moral issue of our generation. One reason that candidates are campaigning on it and succeeding is because of th...
Sunday, August 09, 2026

No Plausible Justification

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It’s the 81st anniversary today of the dropping of an atomic bomb by the U.S. on the Japanese city of Nagasaki ( above ). Three days earli...
Friday, August 07, 2026

“Like a Stream Running Into the Ocean”

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My exploration of – and walking on – the mystical path of love known as the Sufi Way continues with my sharing this evening of a second exc...
Thursday, August 06, 2026

“A Beautiful Thing”

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Notes YouTuber Kyber Carter in introducing his recent 12-minute video tribute to Andor : A ndor broke the Star Wars franchise . . . in ...

Why the American Political Establishment Is Panicking

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The Montana Department of Propaganda is a Facebook group dedicated to satire and parody, a place “where trolls go to die.” Like all good sa...
Tuesday, August 04, 2026

“Tonight Michigan Decides”

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T oday Michigan answers the biggest question facing the Democratic Party. Does it want a progressive firebrand – or an establishment “cent...
Monday, August 03, 2026

Abdul El-Sayed: The Disruptor Michigan (and the Country) Needs

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I ’m going to write something here that we all know is true but few are willing to just say out loud: There is a non-zero chance that the n...
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Michael J. Bayly
Born and raised in Australia, I now reside in the U.S. where from 2003-2015 I served as the executive coordinator of the Catholic Pastoral Committee on Sexual Minorities (CPCSM). During this time I also helped found both The Progressive Catholic Voice and the Catholic Coalition for Church Reform.

I established The Wild Reed in 2006 as a sign of solidarity with all who are dedicated to living lives of integrity – though, in particular, with gay people seeking to be true to both the gift of their sexuality and their Catholic faith. The Wild Reed's original by-line read, “Thoughts and reflections from a progressive, gay, Catholic perspective.” As you can see, it reads differently now. This is because my journey has, in many ways, taken me beyond, or perhaps better still, deeper into the realities that the words “progressive,” “gay,” and “Catholic” seek to describe.
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